Contrary to today’s popular stereotypes, broadcasted especially by Trump and the far Right, Mexicans, Central and South Americans, and Caribbean people’s are a resourceful, hardworking, resilient, and warm people.
We are not aliens, we are human beings whose descendants flourished in parts of this country centuries, millennial before there was ever such thing as a a United States of America. For many of our people, the saying “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed upholds true.
We remember the history of war and lynching in Tejas, the US invasion of the Mexican capital and seizure of half of the country at the points of rifles. We remember countless coups and assassinations of populist governments and leaders throughout the hemisphere. We remember.
And we see history repeating itself now in Gran Bolivia. Yet we are the violent ones? We are the problem?
We are not the problem, and for those who point their fingers and say otherwise, there are for some many more fingers pointing back, while for others we plea for education rather than ignorance, compassion rather than scapegoating, dialogue instead of insults and warm embrace rather than the shake of a fist–these are consistent with the solution, if it is to be long-lasting and good. Otherwise, we risk the culmination of tribalism, which is genocide, which is the ugliest and darkest side of the human race.
State sponsored genocide unfolds in three stages. First is dehumanizing rhetoric, then the institutionalization of that rhetoric in the form of state policy, coupled with domestic repression and in this case, roundup of the other by the state apparatus, while at the same time the Prison-Homeland Security-Industrial Complex is expanded to accommodate increased oppression of that other. Sound familiar?
While I may have been duped for a moment in time by Trumps deception and charisma, I see now more clearly than ever what is transpiring, and what his interests truly are, and I am disgusted. What’s worse is how many he has deceived. I would not want to be him on the Day of Judgement.
Truth2Power!